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Even with recommendations and Reels disabled, other aspects of FB have also degraded significantly:
- Friends don't share original content there as much as they used to, a sign that FB's relevance is dwindling. I suspect people have also grown wary of Facebook's privacy practices like I have.
- FB's features lack taste. For example, its knock-off of Bitmoji looks terrible.
- Increasing prevalence of scammers. I tried to sell some things on FB Marketplace last week and was contacted by a dozen fake profiles trying to scam me with fake emails from Zelle. I also frequently get friend requests from profiles where scammers created a duplicate of a friend's profile, copying their exact name and pictures.
Taken together, my feeling is that facebook.com is (and has been) on a downward spiral toward irrelevance.